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THE SCRAPBOOK
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THE SCRAPBOOK The Rules of Heckling For the record, and strictly speaking, THE SCRAPBOOK is opposed to heckling. It’s rude, ill-mannered— and refl ects poorly on the heckler, not the object of...
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CASUAL
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CASUAL A Man and His Rhubarb My wife says the only thing I’ll plant is what I can eat. Not entirely true, I tell her. I point to certain things I’ve planted: the cluster of yellow iris in the...
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EDITORIALS
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EDITORIALS Born Free In Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio, the captive English maid, Blonde, scornfully rejects the advances of the powerful Osmin, overseer of Pasha Selim’s harem: “Pasha...
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THIS WON'T TURN OUT WELL
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Mcguire, Ashley E.
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This Won’t Turn Out Well The IRS prepares to enforce Obamacare’s contraception mandate. BY ASHLEY E. MCGUIRE On August 1, the one-year “safe harbor” for religious charities objecting to...
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REPUBLICANS IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS
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COST, JAY
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Republicans in the Good Old Days They were just as conservative. BY JAY COST Former senator and Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole had some harsh words for his political party recently....
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A VIRTUOSO POL FROM NEBRASKA?
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HEMINGWAY, MARK
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A Virtuoso Pol from Nebraska? Ben Sasse eyes the open Senate seat. BY MARK HEMINGWAY Fremont, Nebr. Ask Midland University’s Ben Sasse if he’s going to run for Nebraska’s open Senate seat...
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DEFENDING THE HUMANITIES
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LAWLER, PETER AUGUSTINE
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Defending the Humanities Job one is outing scientism. BY PETER AUGUSTINE LAWLER Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of the New Republic, gave by far the most thoughtful and...
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REAGAN, THE ENVIRONMENTALIST
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LEHRER, ELI
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Reagan, the Environmentalist His administration was greener than you think. BY ELI LEHRER Mention Ronald Reagan to an avowed environmentalist, and you’ll generally elicit a groan. In the...
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JUSTICE SCALIA VS. JUSTICE ROBERTS
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Eastland, Terry
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Justice Scalia vs. Justice Roberts A dispute among conservatives over the administrative state. BY TERRY EASTLAND Last month, in City of Arlington, Texas v. Federal Communications Commission,...
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RISE OF A FREE SCHOOL
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SCHULMAN, SAM
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Rise of a Free School Toby Young’s astonishing second career as an education reformer BY SAM SCHULMAN London In Britain, education reform is not the safe topic for conversation between liberals...
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THE MYTH OF AN AMERICAN COUP
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Takeyh, Ray
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The Myth of an American Coup What really happened in Iran in 1953 BY RAY TAKEYH This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of Operation Ajax—the notorious CIA plot that is supposed to have...
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TRUTH OF THE MATTER
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Epstein, Joseph
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Truth of the Matter The writing and editing of ‘fact.’ BY JOSEPH EPSTEIN Nonfi ction is a baggy-pants term, in whose bulging pockets one fi nds autobiography, memoir, the essay, literary...
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BRITAIN IN BLOOM
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LODGE, SARA
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B&A Britain in Bloom The Chelsea Flower Show celebrates its centennial. BY SARA LODGE London In his short story “The Occasional Garden,” Saki pinpoints a subject dear to the British heart, but...
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DANCE OF CREATION
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TUSHNET, EVE
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B&A Dance of Creation The Ballets Russes and the dawn of modernity. BY EVE TUSHNET “There was a defi nite puppet-like quality about [Vaslav] Nijinsky’s Petrouchka. He seemed to have limbs of...
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WISDOM OF THE SAGE
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Rothstein, Aaron
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B&A Wisdom of the Sage The idea, and the reality, of King Solomon. BY AARON ROTHSTEIN In the best-known court case in the Hebrew Bible, two women come to King Solomon, the wise, wealthy, and...
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PARODY
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PARODY “The IRS is a good political issue for Republicans. But are they in danger of overreaching on it?” —WashingtonPost.com, June 3,...
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Vol. 018 Issue 039 (June 24 2013)
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